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This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors - Introduction; D.Stone - German or Nazi Antisemitism?; O.Heilbronner - Hitler and the Third Reich; J.Noakes - Ghettoization; T.Cole - War, Occupation and the Holocaust in Poland; D.Pohl - Expropriation and Expulsion; F.Bajohr - Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; M.Dean - Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments; C.Kobrak & A.H.Schneider - The Decision-Making Process; C.R.Browning - Historiography and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust; J.Matthaus - The Topography of Genocide; A.Charlesworth - Britain, the United States and the Holocaust: In Search of a Historiography; T.Kushner - The Holocaust and the Soviet Union; J.Klier - The German Churches and the Holocaust; R.P.Ericksen & S.Heschel - Jewish Leadership in Extremis; D.Michman - Jewish Resistance; R.Rozett - Gender and the Family; L.Pine - Romanies and the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation and an Overview; I.Hancock - From Streicher to Sawoniuk: The Holocaust in the Courtroom; D.Bloxham - The Holocaust Under Communism; T.C.Fox - Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in Post-Communist Eastern Europe; F.Lobont - Post-Holocaust Philosophy; J.Cohen - Testimony and Representation; Z.Waxman - Memory, Memorials and Museums; D.Stone - The Holocaust and Genocide; A.D.Moses - Index